Your Garden Made Perfect

JoeX

What did everyone think of the first episode?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m000ry6w/your-garden-made-perfect

rachelQrtJHBjb

I always end up watching these programmes and they are interesting but, and it's quite a big but, when they don't show any of the on-site problem solving (they had to grub out an established conifer hedge), the build or the planting it's hard to see what one takes from it other than the design process.

I'll still watch this week. 

amancalledgeorge

I didn't particularly like the house/interiors edition of this programme that they made previously...somehow it worked a bit better dealing with an outdoor space. But I agree, they could have used all the running time they used revisiting their VR environment gimmick to show a bit more of the preparation made to create the blank canvas. 

delski

I thought it dragged on in places, when the Irish wumman was sat chatting with the designers in kitchens or whatever. I don't think she's the right choice of presenter.

I also thought it was a bit..."inappropriate" to have a rich vs poor family on the programme. The female designer going on about how she would struggle with the budget when it was a massive £25k...

Then they have £1.5k from the other people and it still looked terrible. I wonder if the garden would have looked better if the young lad was a tradesperson?

Also agree that they should have shown things in more detail e.g. how to get out established conifer hedge, stump grinders etc. Instead they spent time chatting in kitchens or whatever.

Ruthmshaw

Awful programme. Why does the lesser budget garden not get the fun of the V.R. experience? Very frustrating to see a beautiful design for the big budget garden and minimal emphasis on plants. The colours of the planting on the V.R. looked lovely but what plants was the designer recommending? Apparently the designer of the budget garden is a shed builder and swing dancer!

Mrs-B3-Southampton,-Hants

I got the feeling that the budget garden was more "here is a basic scheme and it gives something you can improve on later".

Loved the VR, didn't seem to be a "get your hands on" show (leave that to the cheap seats) BUT I did like seeing ideas.

WonkyWomble

Thought the show was awful and nothing to do with gardening.  More about people getting to display that they have a certain lifestyle. 
I won't be watching again. 

Nanny Beach

Am with you Wonky, I nearly choked at the 20k budget, but when I heard they had spent 33k.!!!  I also thought it was too "busy" for the space.I know gardening is expensive, but even so, I wonder how much of that was the actual designing, and not purchasing.I must have missed the budget one then.

JoeX

amancalledgeorge said:

I didn't particularly like the house/interiors edition of this programme that they made previously...somehow it worked a bit better dealing with an outdoor space. But I agree, they could have used all the running time they used revisiting their VR environment gimmick to show a bit more of the preparation made to create the blank canvas. 

That’s interesting - I had the opposite reaction. I liked the dramatic transformations they showed were possible in the houses, but relatively basic in the garden.

rachelQrtJHBjb

Did anyone notice the guy doing the low budget garden was the one who appeared on GW this summer with the garden he'd created on his shed roof in Kent? Interestingly, his viewer video was one of the few repeated in the one hour specials shown in January.

Desi_in_London

I didn't watch the programme OP posted about ( well to be more precise I clicked in on a VR bit and then moved on), but I will search it out re the low budget piece as I really liked the shed roof garden chap ( only saw that in the January special as well , not originally).